Staudacher, Ingo
Illg, Claudius
Chai, Sam
Deschenes, Isabelle
Seehausen, Sebastian
Gramlich, Dominik
Müller, Mara Elena
Wieder, Teresa
Rahm, Ann-Kathrin
Mayer, Christina
Schweizer, Patrick A.
Katus, Hugo A.
Thomas, Dierk
Funding for this research was provided by:
German Cardiac Society (German Cardiac Society Scholarship)
University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Medicine (Physician Scientist Program, Physician Scientist Program)
German Cardiac Society (Scholarship, Otto Hess Scholarship)
German Heart Foundation/German Foundation of Heart Research (Kaltenbach Scholarship, F/08/14)
Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (2014_A242)
Joachim Siebeneicher Foundation (Research Award)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SCHW 1611/1-1, TH 1120/8-1)
Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg (Sonderlinie Medizin)
Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg (Cardiology Career Program, Cardiology Career Program)
Heidelberg Research Centre for Molecular Medicine (Senior Career Fellowship)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1R01HL124245)
American Heart Association (Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the Great Rivers Affiliate 15PRE25700037)
Article History
Received: 6 March 2018
Accepted: 6 July 2018
First Online: 14 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This study has been carried out in accordance with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals as adopted and promulgated by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH publication no. 85-23, revised 1985), and the current version of the German Law on the Protection of Animals was followed. The investigation conforms to the Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament. The study protocol involving human tissue samples was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Heidelberg (Germany; Medical Faculty Heidelberg, S-017/2013). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients, and the study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval for experiments involving <i>Xenopus laevis</i> was granted by the local Animal Welfare Committee (institutional approval numbers A-38/11 and G-221/12).